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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- 1. A Backward Glance: 1916-1938 -- 2. The Use of Air Power in Europe, 1942 -1945 : Should the Allies HaveWon theWar in Europe in 1944? -- 3. The United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1989: The Hinge Was Poland -- 4. The Death of Stalin, 1953: The Timing May Have Been Off -- 5. Open Skies, 1955: A Useful Failure -- 6. Eisenhower and Kennedy on Foreign Aid, 1953-1963 : The White Hats Triumph after a Fashion -- 7. The Republic of Korea: My Marginal Association with a Miracle -- 8. The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Efforts to Control Inflation, 1957-1972: Innovations Should Be Institutionalized -- 9. China, 1949–:Waiting for a Democratic Revolution -- 10. Vietnam and Southeast Asia: Should the Ho Chi Minh Trail Have Been Cut? -- 11. The Urban Problem, 1991–: Prevention versus Damage Control -- 12. Population, Modern Japan's Fourth Challenge: The Central Problem of the Twenty-first Century -- 13. The Long and Short Periods: A Possible Binding Thread -- 14. Two Final Reflections: One about the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, the Other about the Individual and History -- Appendix A. Draft of Proposed U.S. Plan for a European Settlement: February 1946 -- Appendix B. The Question of East Germany Immediately after Stalin's Death -- Appendix C.Text of W.W. Rostow's Seoul National University Speech -- Appendix D. Andrews and Ortega Elementary Schools: Texas Academic Achievement Analysis, 1994 - 2001 -- Notes -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Acronyms -- 1 Reflections on the Past and Future of Political Economy -- 2 The World Economy Since 1945: A Stylized Historical Analysis -- 3 The Rich Country-Poor Country Problem: From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century -- 4 Long Cycles and Policy -- 5 A Perspective on the Global Economic Agenda -- 6 Toward a New Hemispheric Partnership -- 7 India and the Fourth Industrial Revolution -- 8 The Pacific Basin and the World Economy -- 9 Is There Need for Economic Leadership? Japanese or U.S.? -- 10 How the Cold War Might End -- Index.

First published in 1975, this book traces the origins of our modern economy, showing the routes by which nations have either achieved wealth or have been impoverished. W. W. Rostow brings together issues of public policy, international trade and the world of science and technology, arguing that conventional economic thought has failed to relate scientific innovation to the economic process. Chapters consider the politics of modernization, the Commercial Revolution and the development of the world economy between 1783 and 1820.

This history of theories and theorists of economic growth elucidates in a unique way the economic theory, economic history, and public policy observations of the renowned scholar W.W. Rostow. Looking at the economic growth theories of the classic economists up to 1870, Rostow compares Hume and Adam Smith, Malthus and Ricardo, and J.S. Mill and Karl Marx. He then examines the periods 1870-1939 and its economic theorists, including Schumpeter, Colin Clark, Kuznets, and Harrod, and surveys the three forms of growth analysis in the postwar era: formal models, statistical morphology, and developmen

It has been - and remains - the American interest to maintain a world environment for the United States within which our form of society can continue to develop in conformity with the humanistic principles which are its foundation.

The challenge facing the United States is, in its essence, simple: can we prevent the enemy from fulfilling his intention? His intention is to drive the United States from power and in­fluence in Eurasia; to isolate the United States on this Continent; and to deal with us in his own good time from the preponderant base he would then control.